Part 03, International Conference on Children and Apartheid: Witness William Modibedi (12) at the International Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa, Harare, September 1987.

Repository

Private Collection

Collection

Pieter Boersma Photograph Collection

Author

Boersma, Pieter

Date

1987-09-00

Resource Type

Photographs

Coverage (spatial)

South Africa

Zimbabwe

Coverage (temporal)

1987

Source

Pieter Boersma, Amsterdam

Description

Overcome by fear of what might happen to him when he went back to South Africa, the 12-year-old Kagiso schoolboy, William Modibedi, who was accompanied by his mother and a young priest from the Detainees' Parents Support Committee (DPSC), found it difficult to speak at the Conference of his experience. He had previously told his story to a lawyer who recorded it in an affidavit: a horrifying story of several forms of torture by the South African police [from Conference report].

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